Throwing a Haymaker

by Rick Novy

Overview

Category: Short Fiction
Classification: Science Fiction
Length: 6600 words

When Dr. Harry Westmore visits with a stack of punch cards intent upon using the computer, the wealthy Bart Toynbee thought it unusual. When Westmore declared the discovery of weather control, Toynbee decides to put his wealth to use bringing rain to countries suffering famine. What could possibly go wrong?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014070348
Publisher:	entropy-central.net
Publication date:	01/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	109 KB

About the Author

Rick Novy makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics (double major).

He moved to California and lived in the Bay Area for a decade, during which he earned a masters of science in engineering at San Jose State University. In 1999 he moved to Arizona (it’s a wry heat).

Rick spent 14 years as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He is currently adjunct faculty in the mathematics department at a local community college.

Rick has more interests than he has time to devote. He is a fish keeper suffering from MTS (multiple tank syndrome). One tank features difficult to find purebred Endler’s Livebearers, a species he keeps because it is nearly extinct in the wild from habitat destruction and is being crossbred with guppies by shortsighted breeders and pet shops to the extent that uncrossed Endlers are nearly impossible to find.